Hobbies: Experimenting with disguise techniques, camping in the Yavin
Mountains.

Special Abilities: Sharp shooter, hand-to-hand combatant and
swordsman, as well as a disguise artist. Dral is a mild Force
Empath. He is receptive to Force telepathy yet has a high resistance
to mind control, Dral is able, with practice, to initiate contact
with those he has mind links with.

PERSONAL HISTORY

Dral Warthen was born and raised on the Yavin moon, Massassi. The moon
is called Yavin by its inhabitants. His father, Vraxis, was a warrior in
the Clone Wars and was thought killed by a Dark Lord when Dral was young.
Dral thought he felt his father's death and he subconsciously shut down his
latent Force talent. This scarred Dral, and has contributed to his being a
brooding person.

When Dral was old enough, he enrolled in the Imperial Academy, believing
the Empire to be the benevolent force in the galaxy like most everyone else.
During his training, his mother died. He returned to Yavin for the Ceremony
of Passage and was given a message hologram from a family friend. Later,
Dral would discover that this man was with his family by the order of the
Emperor years ago. The hologram was a recording of Vraxis who explained that
he felt Palpatine's agents were out to kill him, and he wished to be avenged.

Dral swore so on his father's grave, putting a gash in his left palm with
his (once his father's) vibroblade. The people of Yavin are an honorable and
ceremonial sort.

Dral left the Empire but benefited from his training. He developed a
liking for weapons. Dral owns his father's vibroblade and disguise kit. He
also has his father's necklace: a dragon claw holding a multi-faceted crystal
on a leather thong. He did mercenary and free spacer work till the
destruction of the first Death Star.

Dral joined the Rebellion, meeting legends such as Luke Skywalker and
Leia Organa. He had achieved the rank of lieutenant in the Alliance forces.
He proved his worth on missions involving a good fight or covert operations
as well. He was an evac casualty on Hoth, and was part of Operations during
the Battle of Endor on a blockade runner.

Dral has fought the Imperials at Port Lansing for many years. He has had
the opportunity to command strike teams. He was proud of these
accomplishments, but prefers to follow. Dral was promoted to Lieutenant
Commander. He was also given medals for honor and loyalty.

He still does free trade with his freighter: the Dragon, mainly to keep
his merc contacts fresh.

Over the years, Dral has made many enemies. A Sith Lord manipulated Dral
into leaving the Alliance or, due to mechanical implantation and mental
conditioning, Dral would be forced to try to kill any friend who was a Force
user. He avoided confrontations with them for a while. Princess Leia
Organa-Solo called a mission to help him. They found and freed him. This
experience has intensified Dral's resistance to Force mind control.

Dral served as honor guard during Kirienne Solo's Jedi Knighting. He is
honor-bound to the Alliance, and to protect Leia whenever possible. When he
first met Leia, and after some time, Dral realized that she is the epitome of
what they fight for and has since become her formal bodyguard.

Dral was made a Commander in the Alliance, and later transferred
completely to Intelligence/Special Operations. With the change from being
primarily Fleet Operations to Ground Forces, Dral changed to his current rank
of Colonel. He has established quite a reputation in these departments.

Dral's Special Operations' assignments have included: the formation of
the Yavin Security Net, two large interlocking rings that encircle the
Massassi planet screening all craft going there and is equipped with heavy
weaponry; the Yavin Ship Yards and Drydock, hidden from the Empire in the
long range scan shadow of the Yavin gas giant; the reformation of the Flight
of Dragons; and a long stint in Silver Flight.

Vraxis Warthen was discovered to be alive, and father and son had a
tearful reunion.

A few years ago, Dral was captured from Yavin during a vast assault on
the planet by the order of the Emperor. At that time, Zierna Crand, Dral's
concubine, was pregnant with his child. Dral was cloned. A rescue attempt
succeeded in rescuing the clone, as the real Dral was put in carbon freeze.
The clone infiltrated the Alliance and captured, framed and mind controlled
several key members of the Alliance.

At that year's Lansing Station conference shortly after the clone
betrayed the Alliance openly and "Dral" joined the Empire, Rauss; a long
missing friend of the Warthen family and a hated enemy of cloning, killed
Dral's clone in public view with the aid of Mara Jade.

The real Dral had been released from his carbonite prison by members of
the Ring Star Legion and was currently being harbored within their group in
disguise by their leader, Taereel (an old friend). He fell to the floor
screaming as the clone, desperate to live, tried to take the real Dral over,
mentally. Dral was able to shunt it to his subconscious, but its malign
influence could be seen in effect afterwards.

Dral held a ceremony to induct worthy and honorable beings into a group
of squires (called Trasiir in the Old Yavin tongue) to the Jedi.

Zierna gave birth to a beautiful boy, whose eyes mirrored the wonders of
the galaxy, and houses the spirit of a deceased Jedi Master, Tamiron Colmar.
The baby was given the first name of this Jedi friend of Vraxis.

Soon after Lansing, Dral went on a spree of Imperial Red Guard killings
until he was caught by the Sith Lady, Darana Cairnfell (which was the purpose
of the murders in the first place). Since then, he has realized that he had
to exorcise this evil from him.

Dral performed a Dream Quest, called the Dey'Nar, to purge his inner
demons, surrounded by friends and family.

Unknown to Dral at the time, the family friend that Palpatine planted
many years ago took Vraxis and Elaina's firstborn child and told them he was
stillborn. His older brother served with the Imperial Red Guard and was
named Vir Darkhawk.

Dral and Vir met and sometime after learning the truth, Palpatine agreed
to turn Vir over to Dral in exchange for a future service. Dral tentatively
agreed, due to Vir being sequestered deep within the impregnable Imperial
Palace.

Also during this confrontation, Dral had an odd flashback to a past life
where he defended a past incarnation of Palpatine: a King and his Champion.
Deep within himself, Dral knows this to be true, and it terrifies him,
because after the Emperor's near-death experience, Dral was pleased to learn
that he lived.

Other occurrences have supported the validity of this. At one of the
recent Lansing conferences, Dral met up again with Lady Sybil. She alleges
that she, unlike the others of the odd pantheon of chosen people like the
Emperor and Dral, has not died and been reincarnated, but has lived for
thousands of years and claims that she is a balance of Light and Dark sides
of the Force. Sybil coerced Dral to go into a trance to investigate his own
trail through eternity and he briefly used the Force to sense the life of a
plant. Dral broke out of it, knowing the trance was not of Sybil's doing but
on his own, and was horrified at his potential starting to come forth.

The Trasiir and some of the Jedi recently defeated new evil dragons that
had sprung up on Yavin. Dral's clone had given genetic material to a Sith
geneticist, but they had no idea that she would propagate the whole species
again, including the good dragons which the Trasiir discovered to exist, as
well. Only a few good dragons died and most of the evil dragons were
destroyed.

Recently Dral discovered that he is an avatar of a spirit being of the
universe called the Celestial Dragon of Order. Her ethereal form is as large
as the galaxy. Dral has had great difficulty in accepting this with
everything else that has happened to him over the years. But he is now more
confident after visiting the world of the Order Dragons, on his own.

Dral, after all that had happened, decided to enter the Diplomatic
Department of the Alliance for he felt that he could no longer take sides,
for the scope of things had grown in his frame of reference; there is not
just Light and Dark, but Order and Chaos. He didn't hate Palpatine at this
time, and in an odd way secretly felt loyalty to him, and he hoped to aid
Palpatine out of what Dral considers to be insanity. Also, Palpatine
appeared to be trying to peacefully coexist with the Jedi and the New
Republic at this point.

However, events occurred including several Jedi students' "disappearance"
from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker's Deep Space Station for the Jedi, Knights'
Haven, and the dark atrocities of many Sith against innocents in the New
Republic, has influenced Dral's reasoning and the old, brooding, vengeful
aspects of his personality returned. At this time, Dral has many secret
endeavors planned. Also, now that an alien threat from another galaxy is
over, the war has been heating up yet again, between the Imperial and
Alliance forces.

A few years ago, Dral and others went on a mission to defeat a threat to
the entire galaxy. An extra-dimensional species had planned on destroying
our galaxy and adding it to their own by use of destructive energies that
would first destroy hyperspace travel and then slowly eradicating our galaxy.
Dral has recently returned from this mission, successful but unaware of the
current affairs since his many years away.

Dral Warthen is quick to anger but loyal and honorable. He stands by his
friends, and is proving to be an excellent parent.